Leather Goods

Leather is one of the major exportable items in the basket of the Nepalese exportable products. Most of the Nepalese leather goods are made of leather processed within the country. However, good quality finished hides for shoes and finished goat leather for leather garments are being imported for the past few decades. Nepal has been manufacturing and exporting varieties of leather goods like jackets, handbags, belts, purses, shoes and boots, gloves, wallets, vests, skirts, trousers, travel bags, camera bags, prone, folders, picture frames, key holders etc, of both traditional and modern design in various size and colour. Design and making are tailored to the buyers' requirements. As many as 65 % and 15% of the total raw materials needed for producing the leather shoes and other leather goods are respectively supplied from within the country. By the end of 2058 B.S. the number of leather based small and medium-sized industries registered with the Department of small and cottage industries was over 200 scattering throughout the kingdom, particularly in the Terai belt.

Proper attention has been paid to the promotion of leather goods producing industries because of export potentiality and wide scope of value addition of Nepalese leather goods. Nepalese Leather based industries have made a contribution of about 10% to the industrial production of the country.

Nepalese leather goods are exported currently to more than 20 countries out of which, Canada, Japan, USA, Italy, U.K., Israel and France are the leading international buyers.